Week 3
Still out of work. STILL haven’t received a penny in Unemployment Compensation. Maybe their thought is that if they wait long enough before disbursing the monies, half the claimants will have starved to death? I’m very glad that 1) I had advance notice that my job was dissolving, 2) I had good sense and the financial ability to tuck some funds away, and 3) I’m no longer raising, supporting feeding or paying tuition bills for dependant children.
I have received an offer of employment and have accepted it, but right now it is conditional on passing their tests. Had a pre-employment physical and we all agree that I am breathing and appear to be able to continue doing that for a while yet. Participated in their standard drug screening test which required me giving up of several “bodily fluids” to be tested. Why can’t I pee on command, when most every other time, I always have to go? I’ve had the first of two PPD tests, to test for exposure to tuberculosis.
They are doing a criminal background check, making sure I’m not on the Child Abuse Registry. They wanted to test my immunity to measles, mumps, German measles and chicken pox, to protect my unborn children. Or rather, to protect themselves from liability were I to get both pregnant and the German measles all at the same time!! (I’m not being insensitive to the very real issues and concerns that maternity patients have regarding the problems these diseases can cause a fetus) I am, however, acknowledging that I’m much nearer to an old folks home than I am to a delivery room, and thus felt comfortable in signing a waiver of responsibility. I passed on that one.
Housework is progressing at a slower rate. Much slower.
